Discussion Notes: The Seraph and the Zambesi

This week’s story: The Seraph and the Zambesi by Muriel Spark

Next week’s story: Poetry by Greg Jackson

Rated: Clean

Gerald, Andy and Anais discuss Muriel Spark’s celebrated short story “The Seraph and the Zambesi” which beat nearly 7,000 entrants to win a short story competition in The Observer in 1951. Anais loved the story, but Gerald and Andy struggled to enjoy it. Can Anais convince them of literary story’s merits?

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